I fell for it...Dream Job Turned Nightmare.

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  1. Tiny716

    Tiny716 Bobtail Member

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    Hello drivers
    So I started a new job last week. Small ma and pa outfit. When I interviewed it soundedlike a dream job. Over 1200 a week home every other day home weekends. I was so excited to put my 2 weeks in at last job and begin this new one. So day one I get sent on a run to new jersey then Maryland then home in buffalo Ny. No trainer no escort nothing just me and the truck. No big deal. I have a little experience but not much and only local. Got thru it no problems. 2nd week I leave out Sunday with an escort and he's so busy doing 80 on every road he finds that I couldn't keep up and ended up scraping a pole on some side street in some #### town in PA. Boss is pissed but puts it on escort and pays the town for new pole. What he didn't tell me tho is that the only way to get home was to work magic with the logs and drive like a ###### until you're back and hope you have enough time to sleep before going back out. They use keep trucking app to get around eld. So as of today haven't been home since Sunday. And last night I took a few zzz since I was nodding off. Ended up being late for drop off. Stuck in a truck stop til Tuesday in Baltimore with no pay and no money for food or anything. I get that this is SOP for an OTR driver but this is why I never went OTR. And I never would've taken the job had I known all this. Thinking about driving back to buffalo dropping truck and trailer off and never looking back. Maybe even turn in my CDL and go flip burgers or something. Just done with all this b.s.. Thoughts?
     
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  3. okiedokie

    okiedokie Road Train Member

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    Escort means escort the truck. It's not going to change. Good luck.
     
  4. againstthewind

    againstthewind Road Train Member

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    instead of turning the truck in how about just trying to refuse to go back out if you havnt slept, if he fires you it wont matter if you were gonna quit anyway. if you dont get fired at least when you go back out your not tired and frustrated.
     
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  5. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    Choose a decent company next time.
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  6. Diesel Dave

    Diesel Dave Last Few of the OUTLAWS

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    You must be new......
     
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  7. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    That's what happens when people underestimate this industry. OTR isn't nearly as bad as what you went through. Keep trucking elog actually operates a lot like qualcomm elog does. I think it's really good one. They operate with bluetooth and some drivers either unplug it or drive with the Bluetooth disconnected. This is the elog era. If the company is having you practice those bad habits, you will be in trouble when you work somewhere else. Here it is, they had you driving dirty, and nobody benefitted.
     
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  8. Western flyer

    Western flyer Road Train Member

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    You go from little expierence and only local
    At that, to pulling oversized loads that you need a escort.
    How does that happen.

    Has nothing to do with mom and pop company.
    Nobody's getting you home every other day and off
    On the weekends no matter who they are.
    Unless it's some dedicated job.

    its a outlaw job. Either accept that and roll
    With it,or turn in the keys.
    You're not gonna change how they operate.

    Don't waste your time fighting them to run legal
    Or reporting them to the dot.
    Just go get another job.
    It is what it is.
     
  9. Tb0n3

    Tb0n3 Road Train Member

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    Isn't oversize the last place you want to be skirting the rules?
     
  10. tucker

    tucker Road Train Member

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    I thought only the big Mega companies treated drivers bad?
     
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  11. 06driver

    06driver Road Train Member

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    Nah much better to get way out of compliance, preferably with a good size oversize with a tight permit then pull into a scale. Politely show the officer your logs and hand him the keys.

    If your going to flip burgers .ight as well take a bottom feeder down a few grand.
     
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